I first heard of Bill Asher from one of my LA session players. He said Bill was the only person he would let work on his vintage guitars and he also promised to bring me a guitar built by Bill because he thought I should carry them in my shop. He brought me a T Deluxe last fall that I thought was fantastic. I met Bill at NAMM in January and got to see all his wonderful instruments (all wrong handed of course). So now my first two guitars have arrived. I'm happy. Bill's clients are just about every guitar player you can imagine, from Jackson Browne, Robben Ford, Ry Cooder, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Beck, Peter Frampton, and on and on. $3800
Weight: 6.7 lbs
Condition: New relicClick for more photosAsher T Deluxe specs webpage.Video review.

I first heard of Bill Asher from one of my LA session players. He said Bill was the only person he would let work on his vintage guitars and he also promised to bring me a guitar built by Bill because he thought I should carry them in my shop. He brought me a T Deluxe last fall that I thought was fantastic. I met Bill at NAMM in January and got to see all his wonderful instruments (all wrong handed of course). So now my first two guitars have arrived. I'm happy. Bill's clients are just about every guitar player you can imagine, from Jackson Browne, Robben Ford, Ry Cooder, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Beck, Peter Frampton, and on and on.
The Tempered Series has all baked wood bodies and necks. Super light weight, super resonate. $4275
Weight: 6.7 lbs
Condition; NewClick for more photos.Asher T Deluxe specs webpage.Video review.

Cole Clark has hooked up with Korg and got much more organized (and building leftys!), so I'm back on board with them. I still believe they have the best factory installed pickup system for acoustic. This one is Redwood/Blackwood. These woods are grown locally in Australia, completely sustainable, and sound great. $2299 MAP.Condition: NewClick for more photos.Cole Clark FL2E-Redwood/Blackwood specs webpage.

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ALL THAT'S NEW AT JERRY'S LEFTY GUITARS!

This is a way for me to immediately let you know what has arrived on a weekly basis. I will be posting all new guitars first on this blog with links to Flickr and pricing. They go on my website soon after if I did not sell it directly as a result of someone seeing it on this blog first. It usually takes about a week for a guitar to go from blog to website. Please direct inquiries about buying guitars you see on this blog to my email or phone. I've sold hundreds of guitars from the blog that have never made it to my website or the "sold guitars" pages on the website. If you see something you are interested in, email or call. Whomever asks about a particular guitar gets the first refusal on the guitar. You can subscribe to this blog so every time I post you get an email. That way you know the day anything new arrives. I'll likely be posting weekly, letting you know what's up in the lefty guitar world (or my little corner of it anyway).

There will probably be some growing pains (certainly on my part!) with this blog, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Click on any photo in this blog for a LARGE photo.

I've now subscribed to Flickr to host my photos. They present the photos much better than Photobucket. I currently have over 1400 guitars (over 28,000 photos) on Flickr. Click on "Albums" to see all the guitars on the account. I'll be keeping the Photobucket account as I have over 1000 guitars on there already.

On Photobucket, you can click on the "view all albums" under the 10 albums shown on the right (bottom of Sub-albums list) and access all the manufacturers (about 70 right now) files that I have photos for. Beginning 7/30/11 I have started adding sub-albums to all the albums so you won't have to search all the photos in an album to find the specific one you are seeking. You can find the sub-albums on the left hand side of the album page. For example, if you want to see the Collings MF, you click on the Collings album and then click the MF sub-album. I started doing this when I realized some of the albums were getting so massive. Who knew I would have over 50,000 photos of ONLY lefty guitars!

Jerry Welch

My Guitar Story...

I bought my first guitar (a right handed Martin Vega V845, because I'm right handed) in 1975 just before my 21st birthday. Two weeks later I cut off my left index finger in a construction accident (I was a full time carpenter since age 17). I thought my guitar playing days were done.

A few years later, I decided I really wanted to play and it seemed playing left handed was the answer. Having a full hand to fret with seemed more important than a full hand to strum with. So I became a lefty player. I banged around on that turned around Vega for years before deciding to find a factory lefty. Any lefty knows what happened next, frustration. Not even 1% of guitars built are lefties, even though 8% to 10% of the population are lefties.

I eventually accumulated a large collection of lefties but was unhappy with the limited choices all lefties have. I wanted more choices so I spoke with many manufacturers about making more models available. I was told pretty unanimously that they would be happy to make me lefties if I would order them in quantities that would make production feasible. So I did, and here I am a dealer.

I'm finally getting to play a wider range of instruments. I'm having guitars built lefty that have never before been available. I'm working every day to expand the lefty playing options.